Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -46 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,587 1,934 3,633
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 4.37% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 4.72% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 974 2,707
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +13.08% -14.23%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -43 1,445 £75,000 +0.42% 464
UK excluding London -96 760 £65,000 -7.14% 325
London -6 708 £85,000 +0.29% 192
Work from Home -33 692 £68,368 -2.33% 304
North of England -45 323 £69,310 -3.74% 103
South East -35 195 £67,500 -3.57% 97
North West -54 173 £75,000 +7.14% 66
Yorkshire -32 82 £67,153 -8.87% 23
Midlands -72 81 £67,500 -1.82% 24
South West -81 70 £52,500 -23.39% 48
North East +11 68 £65,000 -6.50% 15
West Midlands -52 57 £77,500 +10.71% 16
East of England -28 38 £60,100 +0.17% 22
Scotland -62 28 £62,500 -20.03% 12
East Midlands -62 23 £65,000 - 8
Wales -34 22 £65,000 +25.00% 13
Northern Ireland -31 7 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.07%) Confluence
3 13 (0.82%) CMS
4 12 (0.76%) Apache
4 12 (0.76%) IIS
5 10 (0.63%) JBoss
6 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.38%) WordPress
8 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 4 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.38%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 850 (53.56%) AWS
2 674 (42.47%) Azure
3 301 (18.97%) GCP
4 242 (15.25%) Serverless
5 156 (9.83%) SaaS
6 151 (9.51%) GitHub
7 135 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (6.11%) Amazon S3
10 91 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 68 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
13 67 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
14 63 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
14 63 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
15 54 (3.40%) Azure AKS
16 50 (3.15%) GitHub Copilot
17 46 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
18 43 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (2.65%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.78%) Broadband
2 22 (1.39%) Network Security
3 11 (0.69%) DNS
3 11 (0.69%) MQTT
4 9 (0.57%) DMARC
5 8 (0.50%) VPN
6 7 (0.44%) DHCP
6 7 (0.44%) Firewall
6 7 (0.44%) HTTP
6 7 (0.44%) Internet
7 6 (0.38%) AMQP
7 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.32%) LTE
8 5 (0.32%) RFID
9 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.13%) SNMP
10 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (13.67%) MongoDB
2 198 (12.48%) NoSQL
3 177 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (6.11%) MySQL
5 89 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
6 81 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 79 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 74 (4.66%) SQL Server
9 47 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 44 (2.77%) Redis
11 41 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.76%) Big Data
13 26 (1.64%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.45%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.88%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.44%) Db2
16 7 (0.44%) Power BI
17 6 (0.38%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.38%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 190 (11.97%) Git
2 151 (9.51%) GitLab
3 128 (8.07%) Jenkins
4 53 (3.34%) TeamCity
5 47 (2.96%) JUnit
6 42 (2.65%) JIRA
7 38 (2.39%) Cucumber
8 33 (2.08%) Mockito
9 30 (1.89%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.83%) Maven
11 28 (1.76%) CircleCI
11 28 (1.76%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.13%) Selenium
12 18 (1.13%) Vite
13 16 (1.01%) JMeter
14 15 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.76%) Postman
16 11 (0.69%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.63%) Bitbucket
18 8 (0.50%) NUnit
General
1 427 (26.91%) Finance
2 293 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 157 (9.89%) Banking
4 143 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (5.61%) Retail
7 87 (5.48%) Law
8 80 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.34%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.84%) Back Office
11 30 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.51%) Marketing
14 18 (1.13%) Advertising
14 18 (1.13%) Billing
15 16 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.82%) Legal
17 10 (0.63%) Front Office
17 10 (0.63%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 546 (34.40%) Developer
2 396 (24.95%) Senior
3 324 (20.42%) Software Engineer
4 228 (14.37%) Architect
5 216 (13.61%) Lead
6 137 (8.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 132 (8.32%) Java Developer
8 121 (7.62%) .NET Developer
8 121 (7.62%) Java Engineer
9 120 (7.56%) Senior Developer
10 110 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
11 87 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
12 72 (4.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 68 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
14 65 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 58 (3.65%) Lead Developer
16 54 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 52 (3.28%) Senior Java Engineer
18 48 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
19 43 (2.71%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (23.00%) .NET
2 347 (21.87%) React
3 304 (19.16%) Node.js
4 268 (16.89%) Spring
5 257 (16.19%) RESTful
6 245 (15.44%) Spring Boot
7 219 (13.80%) REST
8 198 (12.48%) Kafka
9 148 (9.33%) AngularJS
10 135 (8.51%) .NET Core
11 130 (8.19%) ASP.NET
11 130 (8.19%) Vue
12 103 (6.49%) ASP.NET Core
13 82 (5.17%) gRPC
13 82 (5.17%) HTML
14 73 (4.60%) CSS
15 70 (4.41%) .NET Framework
16 64 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
17 63 (3.97%) ASP.NET Web API
18 56 (3.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 467 (29.43%) Cloud Native
2 273 (17.20%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.84%) Over-the-Top Content
9 34 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 32 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 26 (1.64%) AI Agents
14 25 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.45%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.32%) e-Learning
16 21 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (1.32%) PKI
17 18 (1.13%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.80%) Linux
2 39 (2.46%) Windows
3 20 (1.26%) Unix
4 7 (0.44%) CentOS
4 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Android
5 5 (0.32%) Debian
5 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (50.72%) CI/CD
2 664 (41.84%) Agile
3 577 (36.36%) DevOps
4 572 (36.04%) Software Engineering
5 414 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 393 (24.76%) Containerisation
7 362 (22.81%) Mentoring
8 334 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 316 (19.91%) Event-Driven
10 311 (19.60%) AI
11 301 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 297 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 275 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
14 201 (12.67%) Scrum
15 196 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
16 194 (12.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 187 (11.78%) Coaching
18 183 (11.53%) Clean Code
18 183 (11.53%) TDD
19 165 (10.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 536 (33.77%) Java
2 405 (25.52%) Python
3 371 (23.38%) SQL
4 350 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 349 (21.99%) C#
6 266 (16.76%) TypeScript
7 121 (7.62%) Go
8 50 (3.15%) Scala
9 47 (2.96%) PHP
10 44 (2.77%) C++
11 41 (2.58%) Bash
12 35 (2.21%) Ruby
13 27 (1.70%) C
14 23 (1.45%) Rust
15 21 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.32%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.13%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.07%) Bicep
18 14 (0.88%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 187 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 164 (10.33%) Degree
3 127 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 86 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.70%) CISSP
9 26 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.76%) CISM
13 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.50%) PhD
15 7 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.32%) ISACA
17 5 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.93%) QA
2 51 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.27%) GDPR
4 34 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.51%) NIST
7 21 (1.32%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.88%) GRC
8 14 (0.88%) NCSC
8 14 (0.88%) WCAG
9 11 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.19%) IFRS
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.19%) SEPA
13 2 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.063%) Data Quality
System Software
1 450 (28.36%) Docker
2 17 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 484 (30.50%) Kubernetes
2 301 (18.97%) Terraform
3 86 (5.42%) Ansible
3 86 (5.42%) Grafana
4 47 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.45%) Kibana
6 22 (1.39%) Argo
7 14 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.82%) Puppet
9 12 (0.76%) Cilium
10 6 (0.38%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.25%) Packer
11 4 (0.25%) Podman
12 3 (0.19%) Rancher
13 2 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 197 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.22%) Google
3 50 (3.15%) Oracle
4 45 (2.84%) Typelevel
5 30 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.32%) Splunk
7 16 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 13 (0.82%) IBM
8 13 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.63%) Adobe
9 10 (0.63%) SendGrid
10 9 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (0.57%) Databricks
10 9 (0.57%) Guidewire
10 9 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.50%) Cisco
12 7 (0.44%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.44%) SAP